Apparatus for making tires upon wheels and repairing same.



No. 637,690. Patented Nov. 2|, |399.

.1. c. ANDERSON.

APPARATUS FUR MAKING TIRES UPON WHEELS AND REPAIRING SAME.

(Application filed June 14,- 1899.)

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d UNITED- STATES PATENT Orrrcnt JAMES C. ANDERSON, OF HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS.-

APPARATUS FOR MAKNG TIRES UPONWHEELS AND REPAlRlNG SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,690, dated November 21, 1899. Application filed Jnner14, 1899. Serial No. 720,514. (No model To all whom zt may concer-11,:

Be it known that I, JAMES C. ANDERSON, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Highland Park, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Making Tires upon Wheels and Repairing the Same; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon ,which form a part of this specilication.

' My invention relates to a new and useful apparatus for making tires upon wheels and repairing the same.

In an application filed by me in the United States Patent Oiiice on the 14th day of June, 1899, Serial No. 720,516, I have shown and described as a new article of manufacture a wheel provided with a tire composed of asphaltum and sand, and in an application divided from my present application as originally led, and led on the 21st day of July, 1899, Serial No. 724,683, I have fully described and claimed a novel method of making the improved tire.

My present invention has for its object an apparatus designed to carry out the method and to produce the tire as described in the above-mentioned applications and which shall be also adapted for use in repairing or restoring theimproved tires referred to; and with these ends in View my invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement hereinafter more fully described.

In order that others may know how to make and use my improved apparatus, I will proceed to describe the same, referring by letters to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section of an apparatus designed to carry out my improved method, the wheel upon which the tire is to be formed being shown in elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section taken at the line a; of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the apparatus with the wheel removed; and Fig. 4 is a-detail cross-section showing the hopper, the rim of the wheel, the tire in course of formation, and a scraper or gage.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several views.

A represents the rim of a wheel provided with a metallic box or tire-receptacle B, such as is described and shown in my pending application, Serial No. 720,516, iiled June 14, 1899. This wheel is mounted upon any suitable axis, so as to bear the proper relation, as shown, with my improved apparatus, which consists of a hollow metal box having a base D and an upwardly-projecting end E, the interior face of which is curved, as shown, to conform with the periphery of the wheel.

F is a burner located within the hollow box and designed to heat the same; but in lieu of the burner F the box may be equipped with steam-pipes suitably located, or steam may be admitted directly to the interior of the box.

Y G is atank designed to containrasphaltum or equivalent material and is mounted upon and secured thereto by parallel arms H on each side, which arms are pivoted at their ends to the tank G and base D, respectively, in order that the tank Gr may be raised, as shown at Fig. 3. The elevation and return of the tank are secured through the medium of a hand-screw I, pivotally connected to a lug ct on the end of the tank and traveling through an oscillatory nut ct', pivoted to the upper end of an arm J, extending from the end of the base D of the hollow box.

K is a gage-scraper adapted to ride upon the parallel side walls of the tank G. This gage-plate has its 'upper edge cut out in a design to conform to any predetermined profile desired for the tread-surface of the tire on the wheel, which projects beyond the receptacle B on the rim. The scraper-gage is provided with a screw-threaded arm b, passing through a bridge or lug c, secured to the tank near the end thereof, and said arm is provided with a threaded wing-nut or handwheel d, by means of which the gage-scraper may be caused to approach or recede from the periphery of the wheel in an obvious manner. This gage-scraper not only controls the profile of the tire and quantity of material applied, but also constitutes aguard to prevent the composition used in forming the tire from vbeing thrown off by centrifugal action.

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The purpose in constructing the box with.

. vhollow bottom Dl and end E is in ordery .that

vit is desirable vor becomes necessary to repairthe same by engrafting thereon a suitable,

.i xo.quantity ofthe composition constituting the the heat generated therein may be utilized Vto melt the composition located in the tank and keep itin proper plasticvcondition and to also` radiatev heat from the curved face of I the end E to warm the tire on a wheel. when tire. i y

The advantages of the composition tire,

I the method of'constructing it, and the facility and manner of repairing it are fully `de scribed in the application constituting a di-V vision of this application. 1

What I claim herein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isf l. An apparatus for building up compotion tires upon wheels, which consists of fa hollow 'box having a base D and an end E -with curved face, adapted to be heated lasV Witnesses: Y'

`described,a tank G mounted upoii'the base D andadaptedto be raised and lowered, and means for raising andflowering the tank, sub- ,'stantially as and tory the purposes -set forth.

2. In combination with the hollow box D E, tank G, mounted on the box, and means yforraising and lowering the tank, av gagelscraper and means for moving the same toward and fromv the lcenter of the tank, substantially as'and'for the purpose set` forth.

.3. In combination with the hollow box D, E,

tank G, mounted upon the box, and means for raising and lowering the tank, a heating device substantiallyas described for heating ythe box D, E and-tank G, substantially as and for the purposeset forth. f y

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES C. ANDERSON.

N. CURTIS LAMMOND, JNO. J. HARROWER. 

